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3 Women theatre show review: Generations at brawling point

3 Women, Katy Brand's first play, is rather schematic (Image: PH)

IN comic/actress Katy Brand’s first play three generations of females assemble in a posh but anonymous hotel room on the night before a wedding. Eleanor (Anita Dobson) is the waspishly elegant, sharp-tongued mother of bride-to-be Suzanne (Debbie Chazen).

Suzanne is everything her mother is not, a sloppy neo-hippy with spiralling debts. She is also a single mother to 18-year-old Laurie (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) who is cool, digital-savvy and liberated from the constraints of gender identity.

Get the picture? Brand’s play is transparently schematic.

As the three generations of women fight and reconcile, exposing buried resentments and thwarted hopes, their maternal feelings (or lack of them) rise to the surface and blame is apportioned indiscriminately.

Eleanor blames Suzanne for stalling her career by being such a needy child.